Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Bible Bard podcast now available.

 

A bard is a storyteller who recites traditional texts associated with a particular oral tradition.  The Bible Bard recites and to amplifies what the literature of the Bible says about who is God and who are human beings. 

Follow the Bible Bard at BibleBard.org, on SoundCloud, Spotify, and YouTube.

The Bible Bard podcast transcripts are available in English, Bangla, Spanish, and Swahili on the website. Audio translations of the English podcast are available in Swahili and Spanish. More translations are pending.

The Bible Bard podcast presents what the literature of the Bible clearly states about God and human beings. The Bible texts read during the podcast are so clear that whether you hear or read them in the original Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic; or, if you read translations from the original languages into Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Russian, or English, they all say the same thing!

Finally, the Bible Bard doesn't push the ideas of any religious sect. The Bible Bard  is a public service presenting Bible literature to an audience that has, through no individual fault of their own, never heard what this book – the bestselling book ever in the history of publishing – actually says. 

This is the way the Bible Bard works. Brief recitations, closely focused, no distractions, no rabbit trails.


Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Bible Bard 06



Most people don't know what the Bible says about od's emotions. Listen to the first part of a two-part podcast on the emotions of God on https://youtu.be/85BN6l95X4Y.

Monday, April 16, 2018

Friday, March 4, 2011

The END

Time of the Heathen has not proved to be a success.

First, several people told me the name was too scary for most readers -- they just would be afraid to find out more. Traffic to my website was 1-2 clicks per day, totally 5505 since I first put it up as a Comcast personal web site back in 2009.

Second, Smashwords E-version had 115 sample (10% of text) downloads, with no sales. Mark Coker states, "one sale for every 140 downloads, and for books that have actually sold one or more copies, it's about 1/50."

Third, Amazon digital just sent me $13.93 payment for sales of E-book versions sold. I think these went to family.

Fourth, CreateSpace, where I printed my paperback version sold me 28 copies. I gave 13-14 away to GoodReads reviewers and got 1 review (bad) from a girl who usually reads vampire romance novels.

So, I've decided to close down the website and rewrite by book as a literary genre title named "The End of This, The Beginning of That". I've added a new character, a fictional editor, and provided a new thread of plot running through the story. I asked to submit it to a Christian agent (Nancy Jernigan) who accepted the first 3 chapters for review Feb 16th, 2011.

Time of the Heathen is dead. Long live The End of This, The Beginning of That.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

My two articles on ezine are seeing more readers. See "Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Religion (http://tinyurl.com/24opxqd) and "How can Writers Finish What They Begin" (http://tinyurl.com/2538thy).

If you are a writer, take a look and let me know what you think.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Author's Dream

What happens if dream becomes reality? Premonition becomes cognition? This is the subject of my video, Author's Dream, concerning my novel, Time of the Heathen. Can a novel that is dead last on Amazon go to number one because of coincidence? In this video, the author answers those and other questions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWFQX71v5Hs

This video marks the beginning of a new marketing scheme for my book. Since the book is a fantasy adventure, why not use fantasy marketing: I imagine what my book tour and author status is and publish those musings in videos.

I'm going for the humorously ironic. The video is being reproduced in the following venues:

Goodreads
Twitter
LinkedIn
SmashWords

Let's see if any new traffic goes to the website or buys the book at any of the channels.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Back on the Book Tour

At last, I'm back touring bookstores. I went to 6 bookstores yesterday. Actually I only went to two because 4 locations were closed! I got the bookstore addresses from the Internet - but instead of bookstores, auto body, gardening, and empty spaces occupied the storefront addresses.

Bookworm Paperbacks
Of the two bookstores that actually existed, the first was run by a nice, middle-aged lady named Mary. I showed her my book and asked her if she would stock it on consignment. She looked the book cover over and said, "No." She wasn't interested because she knew it wouldn't sell to her customers.

"Why not," I asked.

"Because most of my sales are romance novels," she responded. "I sell them used at $4.00 a copy. What does your book cost?"

"$16.95," I said ruefully.

She didn't want to waste both of our time stocking it. I gave her my card and left.

Cover to Cover Books
The second bookstore I got inside was run by another middle-aged lady. I told her that I was a local author and asked if she might be interested in stocking my book. She said she would like to see it. I showed her a copy. She paged through it for a minute and then handed it back.

"Sorry, I'm not interested," she said.

"Why not," I asked. "I'm curious."

"Most of the books I sell are used paperbacks. New books I've bought in the past from local authors have sat on the shelf for over 2 years and still not sold. I don't believe my customers will buy your book."

"OK," I said and I left the store, hauling my satchel of unsold books back to the car.

We'll try more bookstores tomorrow.